Author of 'Election' will be guest at master's tea
Writer Tom Perrotta will be the guest at a tea on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
Perrotta is the author of "The Wishbones," "Bad Haircut" and the critically acclaimed "Election," which was adapted into a film directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.
A 1983 graduate of Yale College and current teacher at Harvard University, Perrotta has described college as a "central and disorienting American experience, the vehicle for social mobility and the only utopian community that currently exists in American society." Perrotta writes about the utopia of college in his latest novel, "Joe College."
In "Joe College," Perrotta evokes two radically different worlds and the friction between them. Set in 1982 during the week before spring break, the book tells the story of Danny, a junior at Yale and the son of a lunch truck driver from New Jersey, who struggles to find a place for himself.
The event is free and open to the public.
George M. Woodwell, founder, president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center, will discuss "Ethics: What Might Work in the New Full World" at two events on Wednesday, Nov. 15.
Woodwell will first speak at noon at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. He will then present a more formal lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Lunch will be provided at the noon event for those who contact Carol Pollard at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. A reception will follow the evening lecture.
Part of the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series, the two talks are free and open to the public.
Woodwell is an ecologist with broad interests in global environmental issues and policies. Prior to founding the Woods Hole Research Center, he was founder and director of the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratories. He was also a founding trustee and is vice chair of the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The author of more than 300 major papers and books on ecology, Woodwell is the recipient of the 1996 Heinz Environmental Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
Stuart L. Hart '76 M.F.S., professor of strategic management and director of the Sustainable Enterprise Initiative at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, will discuss "Global Sustainability and Shareholder Value" on Wednesday, Nov. 15.
The talk, co-sponsored by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the School of Management, will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. A74 of the School of Management, 135 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public.
Prior to joining the Kenan-Flagler faculty, Hart taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan Business School and was the founding director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program, a joint initiative between the Business School and the School of Natural Resources and Environment.
Hart's research interests center on strategy innovation and change. He is particularly interested in the implications of environmentalism and sustainable development for corporate and competitive strategy. In 1999, he was recognized nationally as a Faculty Pioneer by the World Resources Institute for his work in integrating environmental and social issues into the management education curriculum.
Hart has published over 40 papers and authored or edited four books. His work has appeared in leading scholarly and practitioner journals. His article, "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World," in the Harvard Business Review, won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in 1997.
Art historian Bernard Smith will present the final lecture in the Yale Center for British Art's Wednesday evening series on Nov. 15.
Titled "Period Styles and the Formalesque: Modernism Reconsidered," the lecture will take place at 5:15 p.m. in the museum's lecture hall and is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit www.yale.edu/ycba.
Currently the Honorary Principal Fellow of The School of Fine Arts, Classical Studies and Archaeology at The University of Melbourne, Australia, Smith previously taught at the University of Sydney and acted as education officer of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.
Smith is the author of numerous publications, including "The Boy Adeodatus," "The Death of the Artist as Hero" and "Modernism's History." He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the British Council Scholarship, Henry Lawson Poetry Prize and The National Book Council, Victorian Premier's and Royal Blind Society Talking Book of the Year awards for "The Boy Adeodatus."
Jane Lubchenco, the Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University, will be the next speaker in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Centennial Lecture Series on Thursday, Nov. 16.
Her talk, titled "Waves of the Future: Sea Changes in a Sustainable World," will begin at 4:45 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. The event is free and open to the public.
Lubchenco received Senate confirmation to the National Science Board in 1997 and was one of seven experts summoned to the White House for a briefing on global warming. Since 1995, she has served as scientific advisor to Religion, Science and Environment, an international partnership of scientists and religious leaders of all faiths focusing on the environment.
In the Spring 1997 Issues in Ecology, Lubchenco and other scientists published a list of services provided by nature, such as decomposition of wastes, cycling of nutrients and protection from the sun's ultraviolet rays. In her presidential address before a gathering of about 5,000 scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she stressed the critical impact of human population growth, which is expected to double in the next 50 years, on both the environment and social equity.
Lubchenco has served as president of the Ecological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was designated Oregon Scientist of the Year by the Oregon Academy of Sciences in 1994.
Dr. Richard Payne, professor of internal medicine at The Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, will deliver the 2000 Iris Fischer Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 16.
Payne will discuss "Dying in Black and White: A Racially-based Disparity in the U.S.A." at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. Sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine, the event is free and open to the public. A reception will precede the talk at 4:30 p.m.
Payne views birth as the "leading cause of death." In his opinion the only way to avoid death is to avoid birth.
The best medical care at the end of life, says Payne, should assure physical comfort, provide an opportunity to bring closure to one's life and say goodbye to loved ones, and should honor and respect one's life and spiritual values. He believes that dying well happens all too infrequently for most Americans, particularly the medically vulnerable and underserved populations.
Actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith will present her original theater piece, "Rounding It Out," on Friday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.
The performance will be part of Smith's three-day visit to the School of Medicine as the Daniel James Memorial Visiting Professor. The event is free and open to the public.
Smith gained national attention with her series of plays "On the Road: A Search for American Character," which was created from interviews with ordinary people across America. She is the winner of an Obie, a Drama Desk Award and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
In 1992, Smith conceived and performed her play "Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities," in which she performed 26 characters caught in crisis. This was followed by her one-woman play about the Rodney King affair, titled "Twilight: Los Angeles." Most recently she explored the relationship between the press and the U.S. president in "House Arrest."
To create "Rounding It Out," Smith interviewed patients and their families, physicians and nurses at Yale-New Haven Hospital to gain a better understanding of the adversity patients face as they experience serious illness.
Smith discusses the process of developing plays in her book "Talk to Me." She taught at Stanford University before moving this fall to New York University.
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